Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 25

But when the time comes for him to cross back again, the river takes its revenge, and drowns him in its depths, saying the while: "It is not I, but thy own boasting that drowns thee."

Who acts: time, youth, river, own boasting · What happens: come, cross, take, drown, say, not be · To what, where: revenge, youth, depths, river, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, river, own boasting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 takes	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 comes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 takes	advcl
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 cross	mark
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cross	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comes	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 cross	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	nsubj
15	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 revenge	nmod:poss
17	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drowns	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drowns	cc
20	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 takes	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drowns	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 depths	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 depths	nmod:poss
24	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drowns	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 takes	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saying	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 I	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 I	punct
31	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 I	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 I	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 I	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 takes	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 boasting	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 boasting	cc
37	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 boasting	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boasting	amod
39	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 drowns	nsubj
41	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 boasting	acl:relcl
42	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 drowns	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 takes	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cross	to-infinitive	youth			again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	the river	river's revenge			thy own boasting obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme
4	drown	present	the river not said here	youth	river's depths			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the river not said here			while		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is a in a quote	present	river	the river = river				tree rules
7	drown in a quote	present	thy own boasting	thee				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
8	revenge		river					nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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